![]() If you buy the inline adapters, then you can just splice the filter into your hose and suck. The other way it gets better is if you use a hydration pack, which I do. Hang one bag and it will gravity filter your water into the other bag. The easiest way to do this is to buy the Sawyer Inline Hydration Pack Adapters and use those to hook up your bags. First, it can be used as a gravity filter just by connecting it to two water bags with a simple tube. The filter gets better in a couple of ways. Sawyer claims that it will filter 1 million gallons, so this thing will effectively last forever for most people. To backflush, use the included syringe and potable water to reverse the flow through the filter until clean. ![]() When the filter gets hard to squeeze, you backflush it. Fill the bag, squeeze and you have water. I can’t imagine ever going back to pumping water, because the squeeze system is so easy to use. I love it so much that it has revolutionized the way that I filter water. That’s about 6 ounces lighter than one of the lightest (and fastest) pump filters, the Katadyn Hiker. If you don’t use a hydration pack, the total weight for a trip could be as low as 5 ounces. On a shorter trip, you could probably leave behind the syringe. The filter with the push pull cap weighs 3.6 ounces, the Fast Fill Adapter weighs 1 ounce, the syringe is 1.4 ounces and the 64 ounce water bottle/bag is 1.4 ounces. A bag with a zip closure similar to Platypus’ Water Tank would be welcome. Even in deep water, it’s hard to get a complete fill. My minor nitpick with the water bags are that they are hard to fill. I haven’t experienced this problem over the months of testing that I’ve done on it. When researching this product, I read several reviews about how the bags weren’t durable enough. You can squeeze it directly into your mouth using the included push-pull cap or squeeze it into another container. To use it, you fill a bag up, connect it to the filter and then squeeze the bag. The system that I got came with three Platy-like flexible water bottle/bags, a replaceable pop-up drinking spout, a cleaning syringe and the PointONE™ Biological Filter, which has a removal rate of 0.10 micron absolute. Take Sawyer’s hollow fiber membrane filters stuff them into a lightweight plastic cylinder that can connect to tubes, bottles or a push-pull cap. The Sawyer Squeeze Filter is a simple idea. Unless it didn’t work as claimed… From the left: 64 ounce water bottle/bag, Fast Fill Adapter and the Sawyer PointONE™ Biological Filter. I’ve always like the way that Sawyer has innovated, so when I heard that they were doing a filter, I was onboard. The controlled released bug lotion is the best I’ve ever used and it lasts a long time. ![]() I used to sell Sawyer’s products when I worked in retail, and I love their bug spray. When offered, I jumped at the chance to review the filter and the Fast Fill Adapter for Hydration Packs, and I couldn’t believe my luck that it was offered just as I was about to buy one.įirst, I’ll put my biases out there. I didn’t think that there was anything that I hadn’t tried until I saw Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter System. I started with iodine pills, bought various pumps, tried electronic filters, tried hanging filters, chemicals and boiling. I’m always looking for a better way to filter water in the bush, and I’ve tried it all.
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